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Comment author: LHJablonski 08 May 2011 05:47:37AM 4 points [-]

And I feel people moralize here especially using the downvote function.

Do you think that people use the downvote to tell another user that they are a terrible person... or do they simply use it to express disagreement with a statement?

I think probably both happen, but it's tilted heavily toward the latter. Feel free to downvote if you disagree. :)

Comment author: TimFreeman 08 May 2011 07:58:30PM 5 points [-]

Do you think that people use the downvote to tell another user that they are a terrible person... or do they simply use it to express disagreement with a statement?

There's another possibility. I downvote when I felt that reading the post was a waste of my time and I also believe it wasted most other people's time.

(This isn't a veiled statement about Roland. I do not recall voting on any of his posts before.)

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